Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50826 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mispahMizpah

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 60 times in 23 works
Consistency: 95.2% (60 of 63)
Reach if approved: ~66 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 63 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (60 changes in 23 works, 95.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 60)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be conferred upon him, to wit, when all being gathered together by Samuel to MiſpahMizpah gave their conſent, and cryed out, Let the King live.
With rule
… be conferred upon him, to wit, when all being gathered together by Samuel to MiſpahMizpah gave their conſent, and cryed out, Let the King live.
William Bridge · The Truth of the Times Vindicated · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at Maspha to make there their supplications unto their God, foreign, because at Maspha or MispahMizpah had been a place of prayer in former time for Israel; as much as …
With rule
… at Maspha to make there their supplications unto their God, foreign, because at Maspha or MispahMizpah had been a place of prayer in former time for Israel; as much as …
Joseph Mede · Discourses on Divers Texts of Scripture · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Idolatrous Prieſts are complained of for laying wait and Nets for them in MiſpahMizpah and Tabor: and this they did notwithſtanding that God did ſtill contend with Iſrael …
With rule
… the Idolatrous Prieſts are complained of for laying wait and Nets for them in MiſpahMizpah and Tabor: and this they did notwithſtanding that God did ſtill contend with Iſrael …
John Troughton · Popery the Grand Apostasy · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſee how they expreſſed and teſtified it, verſe the 6. they gathered together to MiſpahMizpah, and draw water, and poured it out before the Lord, and faſted on that …
With rule
… and ſee how they expreſſed and teſtified it, verſe the 6. they gathered together to MiſpahMizpah, and draw water, and poured it out before the Lord, and faſted on that …
Ralph Brownrig · Repentance and Prayer · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to sacrifice at Jerusalem, ye procured wait to be laid for them, both at MispahMizpah, at mount Tabor (as a fowler would lay nets, and snares for birds) to …
With rule
… to sacrifice at Jerusalem, ye procured wait to be laid for them, both at MispahMizpah, at mount Tabor (as a fowler would lay nets, and snares for birds) to …
Joseph Hall · Paraphrase of the Hard Texts of Scripture · p. 529 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. At MiſpahMizpah by lot, chap. 10.
With rule
A. At MiſpahMizpah by lot, chap. 10.
Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… exspect thou revelations and visions from heaven. Thus M. Sm. as a snare on MispahMizpah, & a net spred upon Tabor, hath layd in his book such a groundwork against …
With rule
… exspect thou revelations and visions from heaven. Thus M. Sm. as a snare on MispahMizpah, & a net spred upon Tabor, hath layd in his book such a groundwork against …
Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… referreth to that vision, wherein by the way God appeared to Laban. But this MispahMizpah was another proper name given unto the same place: of the word tsaphah, to …
With rule
… referreth to that vision, wherein by the way God appeared to Laban. But this MispahMizpah was another proper name given unto the same place: of the word tsaphah, to …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 283 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.